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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type. Provinces 2018
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Cars 170,166 18,286 8,943 18,760 216,155 1,424,758 15.2
Buses 451 62 24 53 590 3,848 15.3
Motorcycles 34,739 4,231 1,048 2,917 42,935 165,194 26.0
Trucks and vans 28,556 3,085 2,076 2,480 36,197 211,372 17.1
Industrial tractors 822 285 532 189 1,828 17,944 10.2
Others 1,574 171 36 169 1,950 8,440 23.1
Total 236,308 26,120 12,659 24,568 299,655 1,831,556 16.4
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.

Last update: January 15, 2020.

Methodological note

This indicator is made using province-wide information on registrations of vehicles published by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). Vehicles are classified in the following categories:

  • Lorries and vans: Vehicles whose purpose is transport of goods (motorcycles with three wheels, weighing no less than 400 kg are excluded).
  • Buses: Vehicles whose purpose is transport of travellers with a capacity for more than nine persons, including the driver. Trolleybuses (vehicles connected to an electrical line that do not move around on rails) are excluded from this category.
  • Private cars: Four-wheeled vehicle whose purpose is transportation of travellers, with a maximum capacity of nine people, including the driver.
  • Motorcycle: Two-wheeled vehicles, with or without a sidecar the passenger compartment laterally attached to the motorcycle. Cars for disabled people are also included in this category.
  • Industrial tractors: Vehicles capable of dragging a semi-trailer, without taking farming tractors into account.
  • Others: Vehicles not included in the previous categories, excluding farming vehicles. Before 1998, trucks were included in this category.

The annual data are definitive.